More P2P Lawsuits
Via CNet: A Dallas federal court has ordered file-swapping site LokiTorrent.com to shut down and provide Hollywood lawyers with access to its full server logs, including data that could expose hundreds of thousands of people to copyright lawsuits. The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it had won a quick court victory against LokiTorrent.
Yikes! LokiTorrent? I’ve errr…heard of that. Again, Hollywood is fighting their customers. Who but movie-lovers bother trading movies online? Why haven’t the big studios gone the way of iTunes? Embrace the BitTorrent technology and establish a business model for legal online buying/downloading of Hollywood movies? The desire is there, obviously. iTunes is a success story and one they should try to emulate. The future is today. The technology is there. Use it!
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I agree with you there are so many positive approaches that could become solutions with great results rather then some of the negative and brute force tactics that have been deployed by some industry leaders.
There’s actually a post over on the AOTS page, from today’s “feed,” which talks about the MPA getting ahold of general warrants which effectively let them search every residence in Delhi, India.
I know there’s an initiative being pushed around hollywood for a type of online OnDemand which is expected to slow the pirating of movies.
I just gave up on P2P awhile ago. Unless I’m downloading podcasts or things like Systm I just stay away.